It’s one of a growing number of initiatives by Metro Detroit community groups, churches, businesses and government agencies to help those devastated by Flint’s water woes.
Source/Credit: The Detroit News
By Jacob Carah | January 25, 2016
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Flint — Bottle by bottle, emergency responders are slowly rehydrating a city desperate for safe drinking water amid a groundswell of support from nearby communities looking to ship as much water as they can to the cause.
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Water flows north
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Mahir Osman said the Detroit Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s effort to collect donations started small.
He said the group’s youth auxiliary began a drive earlier this month and dropped off about 1,000 liters of water at the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in Flint.
“When we were there, we saw a small pallet that had, maybe, two cases,” said Osman, the chapter’s secretary of public affairs. “We were shocked. We thought there would be more.”
He said that’s when the group decided it needed to help more and set up a donation collection station at its mosque on West Auburn near Crooks in Rochester Hills. It has teamed up with Humanity First USA, a Baltimore-based disaster relief group.
It’s one of a growing number of initiatives by Metro Detroit community groups, churches, businesses and government agencies to help those devastated by Flint’s water woes.
“It can devastate this community, and we need to lift them up,” said Rabbi Michael Moskowitz of Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield Township, which is also heading a collection effort. “I think people want to be part of the solution.”
Osman said the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Center is accepting water or monetary donations at the community center from 7-10 p.m. daily. It’s also providing pickup service for cases in bulk. For information, call (248) 884-7880 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.
He also said the group delivered more than 52,000 bottles of water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in Flint on Saturday.
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